One of the key ways in which Seattle has changed for the worse in the last 10 years is that the ecosystem of cheap rent, plentiful jobs, and affordable education that supported 20-something community building in the mid-to-late 1990s has been driven to the margins of the city, and in a number of cases out […]
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What credibility can the UW have in promoting privatization, if its employees who make the most money pass the effects of budget cuts on to the lowest-paid, lowest-status, and least powerful groups on campus?
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It’s time for those of us who are sick of how corporations like Amazon.com are running roughshod over our democracy— crushing unions, driving mom-and-pop shops out of business, evading taxes, and selling its customers’ private information to other companies— to take our money elsewhere.
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Nineteen percent of all jobs in Washington state are government jobs, and the state of Washington alone employs more people than Microsoft and Boeing combined. Yet conservative and most moderate politicians continue to pretend that government is not part of the “real” economy.
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